Reposted by Kwaze KwazeX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 05/10/2026i was fortunate enough to have a screenshot lol 4747118
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"politico.comSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AIThe OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic. 39714223
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners. 212038380
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeArchangelZeriel @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think the funniest opinion I see on a regular basis these days is the brain-rotted idea that someone must be conversant with or operate LLMs in order to have a valid opinion on them, and there's the inbuilt assumption that if you WERE you wouldn't be a hater. HOWEVER: 121
Reposted by Kwaze Kwazetante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026You can't go work for a bad organization, make a whole lot of money and when things start to turn (and the house is paid off) jump ship and expect me to just take you in. That is not how any of this works. I need to see actual amends being made. 3797
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates 311355
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The only source of there being any kind of productivity boost in software is from the people who have had their brains fried by the "discovery" you can brute force a bunch of stolen code into compiling. Anyone still in this industry that hasn't been fried sees these people doing overtime for less. 181
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeAndy Bell @bell.bz · 02/10/2026There's a defeatist vibe rn and I think there's an inevitability feeling washing over us. There is no inevitability. If you're in a position to speak up against the direction the industry is taking, I'd say now is the time to do that. I certainly try because I cannot be fired and it does help! 1016720
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeShaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a staggering all-time high 65% off on Steam! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil... 12264109
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeRich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 01/10/2026Check your moderation settings and see how you are handling accounts labeled Rude. If it’s set to Hide, you may be missing some posts from folks that the mods have overzealously labeled (that’s the kind interpretation). 022
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You're all going to look extremely silly when my teapot expeditions pay off. And don't worry, if I don't find it this time I'll be back. Because the teapot IS out there. And, as was revealed to me by posting on messageboards in the 2000s, if I don't find it it's gonna kneecap me. 020
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026I spend a lot of time looking at the bigger picture but I try to remember the big picture is made of these pixels. People deciding to switch from a lean, energy efficient mode of work and communication into a WILDLY BLOATED and just absurdly Bitcoiny mode of pointless generation and regeneration 3408
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026GenAI is what I am going to optimistically call "pre-systemic" - it hasn't been baked in yet. And the stakes are HIGH, bc once baked in, the climate impacts push it up into a high category among the plastics industry, agriculture etc So....what that means is that heavy users *are* morally culpable 24513
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026are we finally going to accept it's all a scam, a "mechanical turk", it's all humans? 717854
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NIMBYism is considered bad and no good because of the hypocrisy. The very obvious insinuation is that you'd be fine with whatever it is were it built elsewhere. A lot of very stupid people however continue to try and apply this to things that shouldn't be in anyone's backyard. 061
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In making that rhetorical move, they are attempting to erase all of the work that we HAVE BEEN doing to warn the public and policymakers about the real harms being done in the name of "AI". >> 228640
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When the trillion dollar industry can just lie and get away with it for months until someone debunks it I do in fact think it's important to: 1) Never trust it 2) Refuse to be impressed by its products 3) Violently pushback on even the most subtle narratives of capability and productivity 074
Reposted by Kwaze Kwazeg @g--0.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Question for the AI boosters (not that any follow me lol) - if LLM's are recursively self-improving, why do any of these people have these jobs in the first place? 181
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026These guys are 100% having a one-sided language war. 15-20 years ago the guy referred to here would've been writing screeds all night on some forum about the benefits of their personal favorite IDE. 040
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Maybe a better analogy is: The LLM guys are all screaming at us over how stupid we are for using tabs instead of spaces while we're just constantly summarizing Silent Spring for them in 300 characters. 161
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What these people are ultimately trying to say is they have a preference for using chatbots as a computer interface. Their ego won't let them just say that though. Which isn't new. These guys are basically having a language war. They're insisting you use the gui because the cl sucks and ur dum 193
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeEndless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It is right and just to constantly talk about how much things were *supposed* to cost if AI shitheads weren't constantly making everything worse 2749421877
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you accept the latter, the first statement here should strike you as needlessly laudatory, borderline boosterism. You're not impressed by the LLM's actions you're impressed by the underlying stolen work being surfaced to you. Resist the urge to be impressed with how well theft works. 3101
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The expectation at a lot of larger software companies nowadays is increasingly longer hours (50-60). "You have AI, I believe you can do more, so maximize it until I can replace you burnt out clowns with another one desperate for employment" 122
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeBenjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 21/09/2026It’s not at all surprising that a bunch of white collar folks find that slightly improving their sense of satisfaction in their workplace is worth absolutely torching the earth and accelerating fascism. 1198
Reposted by Kwaze Kwazedisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I usually try to explain it like this: picture Hbomberguy as Mike Bloomberg. Now imagine they're Ferengi. Doesn't look so much like the Children's Crusade was caused by twinks podcasting now, does it? 37513
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026Neural networks did not work UNTIL they got all that data. Raw data is useless without immense human labour to clean and store it in massive data centres. GPUs which are also required need rare earth minerals. On and on. AI only works because we're dedicating all of a massive industry to it. 28620
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Alright, into the box, object. We'll see how you feel about this question in a few days. Bye bye now. 271
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Boosters and centrists love to smugly parrot "cat's out of the bag ur outta luck" but this would shut so much of this down so fast. 160
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm not sure I have all of the answers, but I'd like to start with applying all existing regulation: if your system outputs libel, you're accountable for it. If your system outputs medical misinformation, medical malpractice, etc. 2435
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I used the evil thing that must be destroyed on my kids" Very cool, Matthew 120
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Had the misfortune of seeing the codex terminal of a coworker that acts as the team's resident booster: "Hey this is still broken keep working until it's fixed" 020
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software. 3540701431
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18/09/20264 years of truly abysmal people insisting this isn't how any of this works, how new and transformative content is being served, and finally there's the documentation of the people behind this crime saying "nah it's all theft, hope we get away with it" 2265130
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555472163
Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A mob of dorks somewhere is crashing out over how tokenization works Totally failing to understand that's the point. 350
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026Fixed that for you. 1635069
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >> 11596163
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🙅🏽No, AI is not helping worker productivity🙅🏽We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity. The first myth is that AI will improve productivity, which studies not only largely contradict, but sometimes suggest the opposite effect. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU 110748
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Anyway I bet it really did FEEL like unity to everyone who was an enthusiastic participant in the mob screaming that anyone who questioned them was a terrorist sympathizer who hated America. Being inside the tent pissing out of it is a great way to form a memory that nobody got pissed on. 51054125
Reposted by Kwaze KwazeOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/09/2026it's really not the tech you think you know if you "like" ANNs as they are now, because inter alia the performance is a function of the exploitation and no amount of pretending it's not will change that 1273
